2023

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2023 by topic:

Arts

Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television – Video gaming

Politics

Elections – Int'l leaders – State leaders – Sovereign states

Science and technology

Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Spaceflight

Sports

Association football (soccer) – Athletics (track and field) – Baseball – Basketball – Boxing – Cricket – Golf – Horse racing – Ice hockey – Motorsport – Road cycling – Rugby league – Rugby union – Tennis

By place

Afghanistan – Algeria – Antarctica – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Bangladesh – Belgium – Brazil – Canada – Chile – China – Costa Rica – Croatia – Cuba – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – Estonia – Ethiopia – European Union – Finland – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Latvia – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – Moldova – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Serbia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sweden – Thailand – Turkey – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Vietnam

Other topics

Awards – Law – Religious leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain

2023 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	2023 MMXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2776
Armenian calendar	1472 ԹՎ ՌՆՀԲ
Assyrian calendar	6773
Bahá'í calendar	179–180
Bengali calendar	1430
Berber calendar	2973
British Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	2567
Burmese calendar	1385
Byzantine calendar	7531–7532
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 4719 or 4659     — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4720 or 4660
Coptic calendar	1739–1740
Discordian calendar	3189
Ethiopian calendar	2015–2016
Hebrew calendar	5783–5784
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2079–2080
- Shaka Samvat	1944–1945
- Kali Yuga	5123–5124
Holocene calendar	12023
Igbo calendar	1023–1024
Iranian calendar	1401–1402
Islamic calendar	1444–1445
Japanese calendar	Heisei 35 (平成３５年)
Javanese calendar	1956–1957
Juche calendar	112
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4356
Minguo calendar	ROC 112 民國112年
Nanakshahi calendar	555
Thai solar calendar	2566
Unix time	1672531200–1704067199

2023 (MMXXIII) will be a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2023rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 23rd year of the 3rd millennium, the 23rd year of the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2020s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

• OSIRIS-REx is expected to return with samples from the Asteroid Bennu in the Apollo group.
• Kanal İstanbul will be finished.
• London's new £4.1 billion "super sewer" will be finished, upgrading the existing Victorian infrastructure.^[1]
• The Compact of Free Association between the United States and the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands expires.
• Due to the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, assuming that there are no further changes in copyright law in the United States, Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie as well as two other Mickey Mouse short films released in 1928 will fall into the public domain in the United States.
• According to words of Turkey's president (formerly a prime minister) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, if the countries of the European Union will not accept Turkey as a member before the year 2023, Turkey would no longer be a candidate to the union.

In fiction

Computer and video games

• Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball (1991)
• Perfect Dark (2000)
• Crysis 2 (2011) The events of this game are set in a post-apocalypse New York City in warfare with aliens.
• Five Nights at Freddy's 3 (2015)

Film

• Gunbuster (1988)
• Click (2006): Michael Newman uses his remote control and is unwillingly sent to 2023, among other years.
• Doomsday (2008): briefly mentions the extension of the Thames Barrier due to torrential floods in 2023
• 2023 (2009)^[2] Norwegian shortfilm.
• X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014): In the Future, Sentinels have been created to hunt down Mutants. They eventually begin targeting Humans with a strong possibility to have mutant children and humans who help the mutants. A majority of the world's population has been killed. From here, the X-Men project Wolverine back to 1973 to prevent Sentinels from ever being created, saving all of mankind in the process.
• The Purge: Anarchy (2014): The events of the film take place a year after the 2022 Purge.

Television

• Quarantine (The Twilight Zone) (1986): Matthew Forman is put into cold sleep on June 18, 2023, in the hopes that his inoperable cancer can be cured in the future.
• Silent Mobius (1991)
• Batman Beyond (1999): Terry McGinnis to be born on August 18.
• Burn Up Scramble^[3] (2004)
• The Last Man on Earth (2015): In episode 3 of season 2 it is revealed at Gordon's funeral, that the show is set in 2023.

Literature

• The Carnival of Immortals (1980) by Enki Bilal.
• The Woman Trap (1986) by Enki Bilal.
• Equator Cold (1992) by Enki Bilal.
• Killing Time (2000) by Caleb Carr.
• The Free Lunch (2001) by Spider Robinson

References

1. "Better roads, rail travel and new river crossings in spending boost for London | Politics | News | London Evening Standard". Thisislondon.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
2. Archived July 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
3. Archived December 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.